Photo sources and references:
Julia Child photo: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Craig Claiborne photo: adapted from the cover of Craig Claiborne’s A Memoir with Recipes: A Feast Made with Laughter.
Page 5, panel 4: Charles S. Whitman, Governor of New York. From the George Grantham Bain collection at the Library of Congress.
Page 7, panel 2: Cover of the International Socialist Review (April 1917)
Articles on the riots:
“Women in Bread Riot at Doors of City Hall: With Babies in Arms they Cry for Cheaper Food—Dispersed by Police,” New York Times, February 21, 1917.
“FOOD SEIZURE BY COMMISSION, GOVERNOR'S PLAN,” The New York Times, February 23, 1917, p. 1. Also quoted in “Food Prices Create Disorder,” The American Produce Review vol. 43, 1917.